Dear Aris Fioretos,
 
According to Alfred Appel in The Annotated Lolita it is `swooners: H.H.'s variant of the noun, its meaning expanded to include some garment that evokes a swoon.'
So I think that in this case you have to invent something by yourself...
 
yours,
 
Wim Sanders 

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